Health is the result of dynamic and complicated relationships and deals with non-liner and non-predictable procedures. Nowadays, the health section cannot solve its challenges alone. Changing the load of diseases toward non-communicable diseases all over the world including developing countries, and the fact that creating such diseases has complicated mechanisms and is dependent on several factors, made us to consider the importance of doing some health based interferences in other sections more
Social determinants of health are conditions in which people live and how these conditions affect their quality of life. Different factors contribute to these living conditions such as personal lifestyle choices, nutrition, economic status, and even environmental factors. Other components in a person’s life such as their upbringing, employment, education, behaviors, and relationships all affect the overall health of the individual. Admittedly, my upbringings were full of unhealthy food choices due
compared to white Americans. The onset of chronic illness in minorities is usually earlier than in whites. Moreover, the minorities are likely to endure from obesity which can lead to diabetes and health problems that will go unreported to their healthcare practitioner. Minorities are also not likely to seek health-related treatments, and are often excluded from drug research. There are other factors such as; poverty, unemployment, poor education, discrimination, stereotyping and poor healthcare that contribute
to the slowdown of economic growth. Several problems associated with aging are listed as follows: slowing per capita growth, requiring quality advancements in health care services, rising dependence ratio and costs for pension. All these factor will affect negatively on government budget and economic growth. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2007) reported that the population aging has been occurring for a quite long time and in the next 30 years the number of people aged 65 and above
‘Enlightened shareholder value (ESV) is the idea that corporations should pursue shareholder wealth with a long-run orientation that seeks sustainable growth and profits based on responsible attention to the full range of relevant stakeholder interests’. This concept combines two other doctrines of the corporate governance, where one doctrine (known as shareholder primacy) says that the primary aim of corporations is to act in the best interests of the shareholders, while the other doctrine (also